Pittsburgh Collective: Scherzo Grosso || Radcliffe Institute Scherzo Grosso is a concerto in four movements for cello and big band. It was written for Matt Haimovitz and the Pittsburgh Collective with funds from the Koussevitzky Foundation. While the influences in the piece are numerous, the main underlying thread is the memory of Ed Nelson (1962--2004), a trumpet player with the band and a close friend of several of its members. While a simple reading of the concerto's pairing might suggest that the cello represents the more "sacred" and the big band theAuthor(s): No creator set

Google Hangout with Paul Salopek and Students Across the Globe National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is currently in his second year of a seven year journey entitled the "Out of Eden Walk." He is following 60,000 years of human migration, which will take him across 21,000 miles.
Today he joins us from Israel in a Google Hangout with students and teachers from around the globe to discuss the first year of his walk and answer student's questions.
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Space Station Live: Prepping for Walking the Walk NASA Public Affairs Officer Nicole Cloutier Lemasters talks with Dr. Sandra Moore, a spacewalk specialist at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, about preparing International Space Station crew members for spacewalks. Some of those spacewalks don’t take place until months after the astronauts arrive on orbit, so the protocols include training astronauts to perform the type of tasks that are useful on spacewalks in general in addition to working through the entire timeline of a scheduled asseAuthor(s): No creator set

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The Curiosity Quotient: Why It Matters How ‘curious’ are you? How aware are you of the questions your ask and pursue? How well do you listen and react to the questions of others? What do you do to honor, nurture, and sustain your question-asking capabilities?
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The Next Crisis [Audio] Speaker(s): Professor Julia Black, Dr Jon Danielsson, Professor Charles Goodhart | The official response to the current economic crisis may create long term stability or, in actual fact, lay the seeds for the next. The panel of experts will debate what is the more likely outcome. Julia Black is director of LSE’s Law and Financial Markets Project. Jon Danielsson (@JonDanielsson) is co-director of the Systemic Risk Centre (@LSE_SRC). Charles Goodhart is emeritus professor of banking and finance Author(s): No creator set

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University of Surrey Learning Skills portal The University of Surrey Skills Portal is a classified collection of quality materials designed to enable students to develop information literacy, research and study skills. It has been built using Openly licensed resources including several from Leeds Metropolitan University.Author(s): Vivien Sieber,The University of Surrey

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History of the Copier This 2:22 long video explains how a copier works and its invention by Carlson. It is also rated by the series.Author(s): No creator set

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Otis Visiting Artist Lecture: Mitchell Syrop Otis College of Art Design's Fine Arts department presents a lecture by Mitchell Syrop, who has shown his work widely at WPA Gallery, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Richard Telles Fine Art, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Galeria Oliva Arauna in Spain, Lieberman & Saul Gallery and MoMA in N.Y., and the Getty Museum in L.A. He earned his BFA at Pratt Institute and MFA at CalArts. His work has been featured in publications including Artforum, New York Times, Saatchi Online, Art US, and Los Angeles Times. SyAuthor(s): No creator set

HLPC Cultural Medallion, Woody Guthrie, October 16, 2013. Installment of the Cultural Medallion honoring Woody Guthrie on October 16, 2013. The ceremony was led by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, who established the Cultural Medallion program for the Historic Landmarks Preservation Center. From the Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Collection, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University.Author(s): No creator set

Radio Lingua Network News: 26 September 2008 Happy European Day of Languages to all our listeners! By way of joining in this international celebration of languages and language-learning we're delighted to introduce eight new podcasts today. We're adding Catalan, Danish, French, Japanese, Mandarin and Romanian to our One Minute Languages series; we're introducing our first podcast for English learners - Write Back Soon will help learners master Phrasal Verbs; and we're finally announcing the long-awaited sequel to Coffee Break Spanish: it'sAuthor(s): No creator set